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Originally posted by Solasis
reply to post by captaintyinknots
She didn't say that to me when I challenged her. What she did was say "if you're offended this thread is not for you!" which is almost as bad, but not quite.
So, Melissa, I would like to repeat my question which you never actually answered:
Are you okay with the fact that God created Satan, who is according to you, the source of all evil?
I also have another question for you:
Why does the "one generation" line from Matthew 24 apply from the establishment of Israel rather than from the time that Jesus spoke?
Originally posted by Solasis
reply to post by captaintyinknots
For a while, I was getting answers from her. I think a part of the problem was that she sensed direct aggression where your complaints were concerned. I'm trying to exude a cyberair of inquiry, and I am attempting to engage in honest inquiry. I am challenging her beliefs, but in a way that I earnestly want resposnes to, not "oh I see you're right nevermiiind," as seem to necessarily follow from challenges of a "this offends me" nature. I'm not saying you weren't right to be offended, nor that she was right to respond the way she did, only that I understand why she would. If she responds earnestly to me, I'll feel confirmed in my giving her some semblance of a benefit of the doubt.
However, I'm not actually offended by what she says, so I have more space to give the benefit of the doubt.
Originally posted by Kokatsi
I have no doubt Jesus saw things that were to come. But a few things here strain credibility...
Would you substantiate Biblical prophecies mentioning Chile and Haiti?
They kind of did not really exist at the time as a separate country... although seers are known to receive strange words from the future and other realms.
Or... are you referring to some other SOURCE?
There are "Man made" lunar calendars that some scientists place as old as 32,000 years. Some recent archeological findings are from the Ice Age where hunters carved notches and gouged holes into sticks, reindeer bones and the tusks of mammoths, depicting the days between each phase of the Moon. These artifacts are dated between 25,000 and 10,000 B.C. There are also surviving astronomical records inscribed on oracle bones dating back to the Shang dynasty of the fourteenth century B.C. that reveal a Chinese calendar, with intercalation of lunar months.
Originally posted by gYvMessanger
I would also like answers to my questions in the previous thread. I don't see how you hope to prove anything if your not even willing to stand up and explain your beliefs. Especially if your just going to run away and start a new thread whenever things get a bit heavy, the old thread was still completly on topic and had a lot of people getting involved.